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Rio de Janeiro, August 24 (IANS): Sailing’s world governing body could shift Rio 2016 Olympic events out of Guanabara Bay due to pollution, organisers said.

According to the Associated Press, Cho was “50-60%” after a 24-hour hospital stay and was training again. He said he doesn’t know “the exact reason why I got so sick”.

Australian swimmers didn’t medal in any of those events in Kazan, and will head to Rio next year confident of at least matching the target of “five or six golds” unveiled by Olympic chef de mission Kitty Chiller last week, co-inciding with 12 months to go to the...

As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the Summer Olympics in less than a year, concern remains that the site for rowing and canoeing competitions and venues for other aquatic events are polluted and unsafe to athletes.

Through Associated Press’ investigation, an analysis of water quality revealed hazardously elevated levels of bacteria and viruses due to human waste at the Olympic and Paralympic venues.

Saying that recent stories about raw sewage in Brazilian waterways that will serve as Olympics venues in 2016 helped “wake us up again and put this back on the agenda”, the head of sailing’s world governing body says his group will test for viruses and bacteria...

The other Olympic water venues are under the control of the Rio state environmental agency. In Rio, much of the waste runs through open-air ditches to fetid streams and rivers that feed the Olympic water sites and blight the city’s picture postcard beaches. The Brazilian...